Word: laboral
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...choice meat.”I’m not sure how that makes you feel, but her words make me nauseous. For a moment, I’m not sure if I’m reading the words of Iris Burton or the roughly translated phrasing a child-labor-using sweatshop owner in a third-world country. But if you consider it carefully, there are more parallels between these types of labor than you would imagine.Child actors, like sweatshop workers, often lose the opportunity to attend a normal school and never experience important stages in character and personality development...
...University might do well to take a cue from its peers.Like many venerable American universities, Harvard’s past is tied to slavery: for decades, if not centuries, the University inculcated pro-slavery sentiment and benefitted from funds that were the fruits of the slave trade or slave labor. But unlike many of its peers—such as Brown and Yale—Harvard has never conducted a formal examination of its past. And though the University has no plans to launch such an investigation, many feel the time is right for Harvard to do so, given that...
...against ruthless violence that makes “The White King” interesting.“The White King” offers a fascinating and terrifying display of how a national philosophy of violence manifests itself in all facets of life. Just as the state throws into a labor camp anyone who, like Djata’s father, dares to raise his voice against the regime, the school’s soccer coach, Gica, resorts to violence to get things done. Coach Gica tells his team that “after the game he’d smash everyone?...
...There is no way to ignore or avoid the fact that this money came from the labor of others,” Manegold said. “It engages the notion of how much America has forgotten about slavery here in the North...
...Thomas W. Ward, who served as Harvard’s Treasurer from 1830 to 1842, supervised American operations for the British merchant bank Baring Brothers and Company, whose cotton and sugar operations profited from slave labor...